The increasing implementation of IT in healthcare has created an urgent need for today’s nursing professionals to acquire health IT domain knowledge so as to deliver evidence-based, knowledge-driven patient care.   With nursing professionals in the frontline of patient care, many healthcare institutions, government agencies and IT vendors are increasingly recognizing the importance of nursing involvement in the design, implementation and evaluation of health IT systems.  This, in turn, has driven the demand for nursing professionals to be trained in health IT in order to develop and implement information systems that enhance nursing work flow, promote patients safety and elicit clinical outcomes to improve patient care. 

The term, “Nursing Informatics”, is given to  the “multidisciplinary scientific endeavor of analyzing, formalizing and modeling how nurses collect and manage data, process data into information and knowledge, make knowledge-based decisions and inferences for patient care, and use this empirical and experiential knowledge in order to broaden the scope and enhance the quality of their professional practice” (Goossen, 1996).

Recognizing the importance of Nursing Informatics training for today’s nursing professionals and the dearth of training opportunities in this field in Asia, Gateway Consulting has taken the initiative to offer a 2-day International Course on Nursing Informatics to be held in Singapore from 4-5 July 2008.